Latest News
15 APRIL 2023
I have started a new job as Research Assistant at Bielefeld University. For the next years I will be working in the Department of Evolutionary Biology (link). |
13 OCTOBER 2022
Michael Reichert, Ivan de la Hera and I have posted our study on variation in frog calls in bioRxiv. The pre-print is available here (link). In this study we investigated the sources of (co)variance in two characteristics of an acoustic advertisement signal that trade off with one another and are under sexual selection in the gray treefrog, Hyla chrysoscelis. |
24 MAY 2022
New paper published today in Ecology letters on temporal correlations among demographic parameters with Remi Fay in the lead! This paper is part of a big collaborative work aiming at testing for the direction and magnitude of temporal correlations among demographic parameters and how these correlations vary among species’ life histories, e.g., pace-of-life strategies. You can have a look at the paper here. |
21 MARCH 2022
Exciting times! Together with Tim Janicke, Lennart Winkler and Oliver Martin we have uploaded a preprint to bioRxiv. In this manuscript, we tested experimentally for an interaction between sexual selection and thermal stress in the red flour beetle, being my first insect study. Link to preprint here and to the Twitter thread here. |
25 FEBRUARY 2022
Very happy that our paper on the quantitative genetics of fitness was accepted today in the journal Evolution! The pre-print is available in EcoEvoRxiv (link). In this paper, we combined data analyses of empirical and simulated data to show that heritable variation in common tern fitness is rather low if not zero, and that studying the quantitative genetics of fitness in natural populations remains challenging. |
02 FEBRUARY 2022
New paper on Terminology use in animal personality research! This paper is the result of a really nice collaboration with Petri Niemela and Alfredo Sanchez-Tojar and few years of work and loads of discussions. Overall, we identified common disagreements within the field of animal personality and discussed potential solutions. You can have a look at the paper (here), the preprint (here) or the excellent Twitter thread from Alfredo (here). |
18 JANUARY 2021
New paper published in Molecular Ecology on the heritability of telomere length with Oscar Vedder! In this study we applied quantitative genetic “animal models” to longitudinal telomere measurements collected over a 10-year period from individuals of a wild seabird (common tern; Sterna hirundo). We we found telomere length to be highly heritable and strongly positively genetically correlated with lifespan. Have a look at the paper here! |
15 NOVEMBER 2020
New paper out in Trends in Ecology and Evolution in collaboration with Petri Niemela and Kate Laskowski, in what it proves to be a productive (and fun!) collaborative team :) In this Opinion paper we followed up some of the ideas that arose from our meta-analysis published earlier this year, and discussed key questions such as what role behaviour plays in resource acquisition versus resource allocation, and whether that matters in terms of predictions about trait associations. The paper is not freely available (link here), but if you are interested in a pdf copy, please email me and I will be delighted to send it your way! |
10 NOVEMBER 2020
I am delighted to have been awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship to keep working with Sandra Bouwhuis and the the Banter See common tern population. The new project will focus on investigating the effects of rapidly changing environmental conditions on micro-evolution and population dynamics. Looking forward to get started with this new project in early 2021 and big thank you to the Humboldt-Stiftung! |
4 NOVEMBER 2020
Today I gave an invited web-seminar at the University of Jena (Germany) invited by Holger Schielzeth. The talk title was "Phenological responses to a warming planet", and presented my latest results about adaptive responses to climate change, investigating the role that micro-evolutionary and plastic responses play in the phenological shift observed in the common tern colony at the Banter see.
Today I gave an invited web-seminar at the University of Jena (Germany) invited by Holger Schielzeth. The talk title was "Phenological responses to a warming planet", and presented my latest results about adaptive responses to climate change, investigating the role that micro-evolutionary and plastic responses play in the phenological shift observed in the common tern colony at the Banter see.
14 AUGUST 2020
Today it got published a fun collaboration paper with Lucia Mentesana and Nicolas Adreani on territorial defense in the rufous hornero (Furnarius rufus), the national bird of Argentina! You can read the paper here: "Defending as a unit: sex- and context-specific territorial defence in a duetting bird" published in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology [pre-print here]. |
23 JUNE 2020
The first tern paper of my post-doc is just out in The American Naturalist! In this paper "Understanding the social dynamics of breeding phenology: indirect genetic effects and assortative mating in a long distance migrant" we found that breeding timing in common terns is influenced by indirect partner effects and assortative mating for migratory phenotype of pair members. We also made use of data simulations to show the bias that assortative mating creates in the estimates of indirect partner effects. You can read the paper here, and the lay summary in English and Spanish here. |
4 MAY 2020
I am participating in the 6th edition of the World Seabird Twitter conference (#WSTC6). I will be presenting my work with Yimen Araya-Ajoy, Celine Teplitsky, Sandra Bouwhuis and Anne Charmantier on the social components of phenology in common terns. Tune in May 4 for the session in Phenology (#PhenoSesh) at 16:15 UTC to learn about indirect genetic effects and assortative mating! |
11 DECEMBER 2019
I am giving an invited seminar at Institute for Avian Biology in Wilhemshaven (Germany). My talk is about "Dissecting the sex-specific sources of variation in phenology and fitness in common terns".
I am giving an invited seminar at Institute for Avian Biology in Wilhemshaven (Germany). My talk is about "Dissecting the sex-specific sources of variation in phenology and fitness in common terns".
3-7 FEBRUARY 2020
I will be attending a workshop on role of individual heterogeneity for life histories and population dynamics, organized at the Lorentz Center in Leiden. The main idea of the workshop is to discuss and analyse data to further our understanding on the role of observed and unobserved individual heterogeneity in reproduction and survvial for variation in life-history and population dynamics. |
8 DECEMBER 2019
Very happy to share that my latest work "Individual differences in behaviour explain variation in survival: a meta‐analysis" is just out in Ecology Letters! This paper was a collaboration with Petri Niemela and Kate Laskowski. It is freely available here! ! |
24-25 OCTOBER 2019
The seminar Models in Ecology and Evolution that I am co-organising is happening! We got a series of excellent talks covering a range of topics in ecology and evolution! Have a look at the program here! |
16 OCTOBER 19
Paper led by Niels Dingemanse out in the Journal of Animal Ecology: Individual variation in age‐dependent reproduction: fast explorers live fast but senesce young? [Link here] |
8-17 OCTOBER 2019
One-week visit to the lab of Denis Reale at UQAM in Montreal (Canada), presenting my work on "Sex-specific sources of variation in phenology and fitness in common terns" and mostly discussing with Francesca Santostefano and David Fisher (also visiting from the Pruitt Lab at the McMaster University).
One-week visit to the lab of Denis Reale at UQAM in Montreal (Canada), presenting my work on "Sex-specific sources of variation in phenology and fitness in common terns" and mostly discussing with Francesca Santostefano and David Fisher (also visiting from the Pruitt Lab at the McMaster University).
7 OCTOBER 2019
I am giving the Departmental seminar at CEFE. My talk is about "Dissecting the sex-specific sources of variation in phenology and fitness in common terns".
I am giving the Departmental seminar at CEFE. My talk is about "Dissecting the sex-specific sources of variation in phenology and fitness in common terns".
26 AUGUST 2019
I am giving a talk at ESEB in Turku (Finland). My talk is about: Social components of phenology: indirect genetic effects and assortative mating. *The talk was recorded but unfortunately without sound or video (there are only slides magically passing by. Here it’s the link anyway: here). The gala dinner was held in the Moomin world. Really cool place!
I am giving a talk at ESEB in Turku (Finland). My talk is about: Social components of phenology: indirect genetic effects and assortative mating. *The talk was recorded but unfortunately without sound or video (there are only slides magically passing by. Here it’s the link anyway: here). The gala dinner was held in the Moomin world. Really cool place!
1 AUGUST 2019
Pre-print out in EcoEvoRxiv: Individual differences in behaviour explain variation in survival: a meta-analysis. This was a fun, collaborative project with Petri Niemela and Kate Laskowski [Link: https://ecoevorxiv.org/tz2v8/]
Pre-print out in EcoEvoRxiv: Individual differences in behaviour explain variation in survival: a meta-analysis. This was a fun, collaborative project with Petri Niemela and Kate Laskowski [Link: https://ecoevorxiv.org/tz2v8/]
19-27 MAY 2019
Visit to Sandra Bouwhuis at the Institute of Avian Research in Wilhelmshaven (Germany). Here is some evidence that I did visit the common tern colony !
Visit to Sandra Bouwhuis at the Institute of Avian Research in Wilhelmshaven (Germany). Here is some evidence that I did visit the common tern colony !
1 SEPTEMBER 2018
Start of my Marie Skłodowska Curie Research Fellowship ("PLASTIC TERN"), which means I will be based in Montpellier (France) for the next two years.
Start of my Marie Skłodowska Curie Research Fellowship ("PLASTIC TERN"), which means I will be based in Montpellier (France) for the next two years.